After completing his own personal residence at 3027 Castle Street in 1949, Architect Eugene Kinn Choy set about acquiring additional lots in the immediate neighborhood, designing more of his signature post-and-beam style residences, in conjunction with his oldest son, Barton Choy AIA, also a graduate of the University of Southern California, who joined the firm, Choy & Associates in the early 1970s. The house when completed consisted of a 26� x 40� single story with a detached carport.The house was acquired by Kiyoshi and Mizuye (nee Hiroshi) Kawagauchi in 1964. Kiyoshi, born in Marila, S. Paulo State, Brazil in 1936, immigrated with his parents to the United States as a three year old child in 1939 aboard the S.S. Montevideo Maru, arriving at San Pedro Harbor on July 23, 1939. The Kawaguchis hired architect Jack Levinson to expand the house in 1973, modifying the existing carport, and adding a second-story family room (which later became the master bedroom) and a bath where the carport (now garage once stood. Ownership of the house passed to Emmy Award-winning composer Greg Hale Jones in 2001. Jones won two national Emmy Awards and several New York Art Directors� Club Awards for his MTV and work with Disney. He won a Clio Award for his work with Henry Selick on the Nightmare Before Christmas. Greg passed in July 2004.

In 2007, the current owners hired architect Thomas Michna to assist in creating a cohesiveness between the original 1956 home and the 1973 addition. They were paid the ultimate compliment by Barton Choy who said, �My father would have loved it.�

The owner, who had previously rented an indistinctive house on the site, acquired the property in 2004, and brought in the architectural firm, Space International, with Mike Ferguson as lead architect to design a remodel on the original footprint, that would maximize the property’s potential. The architect designed a tri-level house of concrete, wood and glass, with the public rooms situated closest to the street, a semi-public middle level that includes the dining room and kitchen, and a rear level that includes the private quarters, with rear decks and patios that take advantage of views of the lake below and the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.

The Aron Warner House is located at 2016 Redesdale Avenue in the Primrose Hill neighborhood of Silver Lake.

I wish I could tell you more about this 1970s contemporary home; maybe one day I’ll learn more about its provenance. I’m partly including it here so as not to leave it out entirely! The house is partially hidden from the street, nestled in on a wooded lot in the Primrose Hill section of Silver Lake. I’m only including it here to pique your interest.

The Spanish Colonial Revival style was predominant and most-favored in Southern California during the 1920s, largely a result of its proximity to Mexico and Latin America, and the romanticism attached to it from Hollywood movies and popular novels, such as Ramona, written by Helen Hunt Jackson and set in Southern California, which had more than 300 printings and has been adapted for film four times.. A play adaptation has been performed annually outdoors since 1923.The duplex located at 3050-3052 Castle Street in the Primrose Hill section of Silver Lake is exemplary of the style. Mixed in with its mid-century neighbors, its one of the many charming aspects of the eclectic neighborhood that has made Silver Lake such a desirable neighborhood to live in or just to visit.

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